Hannah Gutierrez-Reed. Eddie Moore-Pool/Getty Pictures
Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is claiming that New Mexico prosecutors buried proof that might have helped clear her of involuntary manslaughter, report TMZ and Rolling Stone.
Gutierrez-Reed is at present serving 18 months in jail in reference to the loss of life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the Alec Baldwin-starring Western film in October 2021.
In keeping with TMZ, Gutierrez-Reed’s legal professional, Jason Bowles, filed new authorized paperwork on Thursday, June 27, accusing prosecutors of burying a report that claims there have been “unexplained” alterations made to the set off of the gun that killed Hutchins.
Rolling Stone mentioned the report, which was used on Monday, June 24, in a pretrial evidentiary listening to forward of Baldwin’s personal involuntary manslaughter trial, was performed by a gun knowledgeable final summer time.
Whereas filming his film Rust on Thursday, October 21, 2021, Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that injured the movie’s director, Joel Souza, and killed director of images Halyna Hutchins. The incident occurred on the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In keeping with the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Division, the weapon was “discharged” […]
In his report, knowledgeable Lucien Haag famous markings that did “not seem like unique manufacturing marks” or the results of injury from FBI testing on the weapon in 2022, per Rolling Stone.
Halyna Hutchins Courtesy of Hutchins Household/MEGA
Gutierrez-Reed’s legal professional says the report might have proved that Baldwin didn’t pull the set off and, as such, his consumer wasn’t legally chargeable for Hutchins’ loss of life, per TMZ.
Bowles claims prosecutors “withheld bombshell exculpatory proof that it had a constitutional obligation to reveal and that might have resulted in a essentially completely different trial and certain a distinct consequence,” in keeping with TMZ, which mentioned it had obtained the paperwork.
Nonetheless, throughout Monday’s evidentiary listening to in Baldwin’s case, Haag, the gun knowledgeable, testified he now not stands by his report and now believes the marks had been made throughout FBI testing utilizing a mallet, experiences Rolling Stone.
Gutierrez-Reed was discovered responsible on March 6 and sentenced to jail the next month on April 15. She was chargeable for the firearms on the New Mexico set of Rust when Hutchins was fatally injured in 2021. The 42-year-old cinematographer was struck by a dwell spherical of ammunition discharged from a gun held by Baldwin throughout rehearsals. Director Joel Souza was additionally injured.
Gutierrez-Reed’s attorneys filed a movement to attraction the conviction on Could 13, in keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by TMZ. Gutierrez-Reed can also be requesting to be launched from jail pending the end result of the attraction.
“Ms. Gutierrez-Reed is requesting to be launched whereas she appeals, as if her attraction is profitable, she can have served most or all of her sentence anyway, rendering a big a part of the attraction meaningless,” her attorneys argued within the movement, per TMZ.
Us Weekly has reached out to Gutierrez-Reed’s legal professional and the lead prosecutor in her case, Kari T Morrissey, for remark.
